ACT ON COMPENSATING THE OWNERS OF NATIONALIZED PROPERTIES
Prom. SG. 107/18 Nov 1997, amend. SG. 30/17 Mar 1998, amend. SG. 45/21 Apr 1998, amend. SG. 88/31 Jul 1998, amend. SG. 135/17 Nov 1998, amend. SG. 12/12 Feb 1999, amend. SG. 9/1 Feb 2000, corr. SG. 10/4 Feb 2000, amend. SG. 99/5 Dec 2000, amend. SG. 25/16 Mar 2001, amend. SG. 28/19 Mar 2002, amend. SG. 45/30 Apr 2002, amend. SG. 47/10 May 2002, amend. SG. 112/23 Dec 2003, amend. SG. 101/16 Nov 2004, amend. SG. 24/21 Mar 2006, amend. SG. 59/20 Jul 2007, amend. SG. 77/1 Oct 2010, amend. SG. 61/11 Aug 2015, amend. SG. 77/18 Sep 2018
Art. 1. This Act is issued pursuant to Art. 3, Para. 3 of the Restoring Ownership of Nationalised Real Estate Act.

Art. 2. (1) The owners or the legal successors of owners of properties taken by the state under the laws and by the ways pointed out in Art. 1 and Art. 2 of the Restoring Ownership of Nationalised Real Estate Act, but which cannot actually be given back because they have become public ownership of the state or the municipalities, acquired in good faith by third parties or observing the legislation in effect construction or other changes have been made, which do not permit their real giving back, shall have the right to:
1. either co-ownership of the sites built on their land, or of the terrains to which these land have been joined, in ideal parts corresponding to the ratio of the real market value of their land if it had not been built on to the real market value of the whole site by the day this Act enters into force. When on this land at taking by the state or alienation there were buildings, outhouses and facilities, demolished or restructured in a way not permitting their real giving back, the ideal parts restituted to the owners shall be increased with their value;
2. or to part of the stocks of the commercial companies in which long term assets were included these lands, corresponding to the value of the ideal parts established by the order of item 1;
3. or to compensatory bonds of value, equal to the value of the ideal parts established by the order of item 1.
(2) (New - SG 88/98; revoked - SG 28/02)
(3) (Previous para 2 - SG 88/98) The rights of para 1 shall have also the persons which ownership of land or part of it as well as the ownership of buildings, outhouses and facilities existing on the land has been restored really if they wish to substitute it with ideal parts of the ownership of the whole site built on their land or to the terrain it was joined to. In such case the value of the really restored ownership shall be determined according to effective market prices by the day when this Act enters into force and shall be increased with the value of the due indemnifications for the use of the restituted land, buildings, outhouses and facilities for the time from February 25, 1992, till the recognising of the rights of owners and regulation of the relations between the owners by the order of Art. 31 and Art. 32 of the Ownership Act if such indemnification or rent have not been paid.
(4) (Previous para 3 - SG 88/98) The owners shall have the right to choose the mode of indemnification except the cases when the land has become public ownership of the state till February 25, 1992, when it was acquired till this date by persons in good faith, or to such persons has been granted lawful right to build and the construction gas started when this Act enters into force.
(5) (Suppl. - SG 45/98, previous para 4 - SG 88/98) In all cases the owners shall have the right to require separation and real giving back of the land or a part of it when it could be detached in an independent parcel according to the normative requirements. They also can require real restoration of ownership in independent sites (land plots, buildings, flats, shops, etc.), acquired by the state, the municipalities, the public organisations or their companies, enterprises and sole entrepreneurs under Art. 61 of the Commerce Act against conceding development right or in exchange of their alienated ownership.
(6) (Previous para 5 - SG 88/98) When on the land taken by the state, alienated or unlawfully taken away construction or other changes have been made without lawful ground or after February 25, 1992, the ownership in land shall be really restored and the relations between the owner and the builder, respectively the implementer of the changes, shall be arranged according to Art. 73 and Art. 74 of the Ownership Act. The yields and the indemnifications of Art. 73 of the Ownership Act shall be due after February 25, 1992.
(7) (Previous para 6 - SG 88/98, amend. - SG 25/2001) When the property is turned into public ownership of the state under an Act or with a decision of the Council of Ministers, or of the municipality - with a decision of the corresponding municipal council after February 25, 1992, it shall be paid to the owners according to the real market prices by the day when this Act enters into force by the state or by the municipality through the Ministry of Finance or the municipality made the transformation.

Art. 3. (1) The persons from whom are taken by the state or alienated any movable or immovable properties (without land), securities, valuables and money under normative acts pointed out in Art. 2, Para. 1 of the Restoring Ownership of Nationalised Real Estate Act taken by the state or without legal ground under art. 2, para 2 of the Restoring Ownership of Nationalised Real Estate Act taken by the state, the ownership or the rights in which cannot be restored really because they are demolished, reconstructed, used, become unfit, acquired in good faith by third parties or have finished to exist in another way, or their legal successors shall be indemnified according to their choice:
1. with increase of their ideal parts of ownership in the sites of Art. 2 if the possessions subject to indemnification have been included in the assets of the corresponding enterprises at taking by the state or at the occurred later reconstruction;
2. or with stocks or shares from the commercial companies into which were transformed the enterprises where had been included the possessions subject to indemnification;
3. or with compensatory bonds.
(2) In the same way shall be indemnified also the persons who have not received the due indemnifications for alienated properties under other laws and by-laws because these properties were within the provisions of the Act on nationalisation of private industrial and mining enterprises (prom. SG 302/47; amend. SG 176/49) and of the Act on alienation of the large scale town built immovable property (prom. SG 87/48; amend. SG 91, 191 /48) or not paid due to other reasons.
(3) By the order of para 2 shall be indemnified the Bulgarian citizens and their legal successors with the of which immovable and immovable properties (without farm land) has been redeemed state debt according to the Agreement for settlement of pending financial issues and for development of the economic cooperation between the People's Republic of Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Greece (SG 87/64).
(4) (Second sentence announced unconstitutional with DCC 4 of 1998 - SG 30/98) The persons of para 1 and 2 shall have all rights under Art. 2. They shall also be able, together or separately, to require liquidation of the created co-ownership where they participate, and to buy with priority the shares of the other co-owners if they pay them in three years period after the end of the subdivision procedures or after achieving agreement for voluntary liquidation of the co-ownership.
(5) The persons whose properties have been taken by the state under the Act on nationalisation of private industrial and mining enterprises and their legal successors shall be indemnified for the special active balance of the nationalised enterprise, compiled by the order of chapter II of the Regulation for implementation of the Act on nationalisation of private industrial and mining enterprises (prom. SG 39/48; amend. 181/50), refused with the value of the really restored ownership or of the received co-ownership in possessions included in the same special balance.

Art. 4. (1) (Amend. and suppl. - SG 47/02, in force from 12.06.2002) The compensatory bonds under this Act shall be personal and book-entry securities. The order for issuing them, the transactions and the payments with them shall be provided with a separate Act.
(2) (Amend. - SG 9/2000; amend. - SG 28/02) Participating with the compensatory bonds can be in privatisation transactions for purchasing stocks or shares of trade companies included in the list under Art. 11 of the Privatisation and Post-Privatisation Control Act, as well as using them in the cases stipulated by another normative act.
(2a) (New - SG 25/01, revoked - SG 28/02)
(2b) (New - SG 25/01, revoked - SG 28/02)
(3) The value of the properties against which are given stocks, shares, compensatory bonds or are determined the ideal parts in co-ownership shall be defined:
1. according to the actual market value by the day when this Act enters into force for:
a) the lands of Art. 2, Para. 1, item 1 and the undeveloped plots within the boundaries of the regulation plans of settlements;
b) the buildings, the flats, the storehouses, the shops and any other kind of buildings and premises which are demolished or reconstructed in such a way that they do not exist really or which exist really but the ownership in them cannot be restored because they have been acquired by third parties in good faith;
c) the valuables, the gold and any other movable properties not entered in the special balances or taken in another unlawful way from their owners ;
2. for all other properties of Art 3 - according to the value pointed out in the act for alienation, in the declaration under the Act on one-time tax over the properties (prom. SG 80/47; amend. SG 146/47) in the special balance or established with another written documents, converted to present leva using as denominator the average month salary according to the formula:

VI = (VPA x AMSQ)/AMSYA,
where:
VI is the value of th indemnification;
VPA is the value of the property at alienation;
MSQ is the average month salary for the quarter preceding the one when the compensatory bonds are given;
AMSYA is the average month salary during the year of alienation;

3. (suppl. - SG 45/98; amend. - SG 45/02) the actual market value of items "a" and "b" of item 1 shall be determined by the order of § 3a doubling the achieved value.
(4) The value of the property or of the active balance shall not be reduced with the reduction provided in the corresponding laws for the due indemnification.
(5) The compensatory bonds shall be printed on special paper in bank notes of hundred thousand levs, one million levs and ten million levs. The right to receive the records shall be rounded up or down to hundred thousand levs.
(6) (New - SG 25/2001, amend. - SG 47/02, in force from 12.06.2002) The compensatory bonds, the residential compensatory bonds can be used directly as investment vouchers without being necessary to be substituted by such. They shall be redeemed with the first participation in a privatisation deal.

Art. 5. (1) The owners of alienated homes and undeveloped or built land plots within the boundaries of the regulation plans of settlements and in the villa zones, used or destined for residential construction the ownership in which has not been restored and cannot be restored, or their legal successors, shall receive (if they choose this way of indemnification) special residential compensatory bonds.
(2) (Amend. - SG 101/04) The residential compensatory bonds shall have the status and give to their owners all rights of Art. 4 of this Act.
(3) Residential compensatory bonds shall receive also the persons whose homes have been restored to former owners by the order of Art. 7 of the Restoring Ownership of Nationalised Real Estate Act if they have not received indemnification under § 3 of the same Act.

Art. 6. (1) (Amend. - SG 45/98) The requirements for indemnification under this Act by pointing out the chosen way of indemnification shall be submitted in one year term after entering into force to:
1. the Minister or the chief of the administrative body exercising the rights of the state in the commercial companies in which assets are included the possessions under this Act;
2. the regional governors - in all other cases.
(2) At the regional administrations shall be established special services for implementation of this Act.
(3) (Amend. - SG 25/2001) The submitted claims shall be checked and decided by the corresponding Minister, chief of administrative body or regional governor in two months after handing over. The decisions shall be announced to the claimants in seven days term after being taken by the order of the Civil Procedures Code. Not receiving the decision till June 30, 2001, shall be considered as tacit refusal.
(4) (Suppl. - SG 88/98) The recognised claims shall be submitted for assessment of the claims and for establishing the quotas in the co-ownership with an order by those issued the decision to charted surveyors who have received special permission for making such expert statements, according to a list approved by the Minister of Justice and by the Minister of Finance. The charted surveyors shall prepare the expert statements in one month term after the assigning of the task. The owners or their legal successors can pay the expenses for the expert statements of the charted surveyors of the previous sentence. In this case the value of the indemnification is increased with the value of the expenses incurred for the assessment.
(5) (Amend. - SG 25/2001) The valuations made and the established quotas shall be approved by the corresponding Minister, chief of administrative body or regional governor in one month term after the submitting of the valuation by the charted surveyors and shall be announced to the claimants within seven days from their approval by the order of the Civil Procedure Code. Not receiving the decision within seven days shall be considered as tacit refusal.
(6) (Partially declared unconstitutional in the part that provides for an appeal before the relevant district court of the decisions, including the tacit refusals of the ministers with DCC No 4 of the Constitutional Court - SG 30/98; amend. - SG 45/98, amend. - SG 135/98, amend. - SG 12/99, amend. - SG 9/2000, amend. - SG 77/18, in force from 01.01.2019) The assessments and the established quotas of para 5 as well as the refusals of the regional governors and the chiefs of administrative bodies to satisfy the request for indemnification or the way of indemnification shall be subject to to appeal within 14 days from the announcement by the order of the Administrative-Procedure Code before the relevant administrative court. The silent refusals can be appealed till March 31, 2000. If the rejected claim is respected the court shall assign expert statement by persons of Art. 4 and shall ultimately decide about the claim.
(7) (Amend. - SG 88/98; repealed - SG 9/2000)
(8) (New - SG 88/98, revoked - SG 47/02, in force from 12.06.2002)
(9) (New - SG 88/98; amend. - SG 25/2001; amend. - SG 47/02, in force from 12.06.2002) The body under Para. 1 shall be obliged to keep a register for the certifying documents, sent to the bodies under the Act on the Transactions with Compensation Instruments and about the received and handed over to the owners of compensation instruments certifying documents.
(10) (Previous para 8 - SG 88/98) The procedures for the appeals of para 6 shall be exempt from state fees. The corporate body in which assets are included the possessions subject to indemnifications shall obligatory be summoned to these procedures.
(11) (Previous para 9 - SG 88/98; suppl. - SG 9/2000; amend. - SG 47/02, in force from 12.06.2002; amend. - SG 112/03; amend. – SG 61/15) * The tax on immovable properties used by the state, the municipalities, the public organisations or commercial companies they participate, including the privatised ones, shall be due and paid by the users who shall discount it from the rent due to the owners. The indemnifications under this Act, in this number the possessions, the shares, the stocks, the compensation or the residential compensatory bonds as well as the received shall not be income and shall not be subject to taxation. The received at selling and exchange of farm land under Art. 3, Para 4 of the Farm Land Ownership and Use Act shall also be no income and is not subject to taxation. The citizens of states with which the Republic of Bulgaria has agreements for avoiding the double taxation of the income and the possessions entered into force, can freely repatriate possessions and transactions with what they have received under this Act.
(12) (New - SG 45/98, previous Para. 10 - SG 88/98; suppl. - SG 9/2000; revoked – SG 59/07, in force from 01.03.2008)

Art. 7. (New - SG 12/99) (1) The requests for compensation by the order of Art. 2, Para. 1, item 2 or of Art. 3, Para. 1, item 2 shall be satisfied as follows:
1. for expropriated lands and/or possessions which have been included in the assets of commercial companies of of their legal grantors, the rightful claimants shall receive stocks or shares equal to the value of their expropriated lands and/or other possessions established by the order of Art. 4, Para. 3;
2. if the value of the stocks or the shares under item 1 exceeds the value of the state participation in the capital of the company by the moment of the request compensatory notes, compensation records shall be conceded for the difference.
(2) (Revoked - SG 28/02)
(3) (Revoked - SG 28/02)

Art. 8. (New - SG 9/2000) (1) (Amend. - SG 25/2001; amend. - SG 47/02, in force from 12.06.2002) Payments by means of compensatory and housing compensatory notes under this Act shall be done in the event of:
1. (amend. and suppl. - SG 25/2001, revoked - SG 28/02)
2. (amend. - SG 25/2001) sale of state properties and/or real rights or items pursuant to the State Property Act;
3. (amend. - SG 101/04) acquiring the right to building on state lands, the right to raising an additional storey or adding to buildings, built on lands which are state property;
4. (amend. - SG 101/04) acquiring the right to ownership or shares of the right to ownership of state lands on which restricted real rights or the right to building have been constituted in favor of the buyer;
5. (suppl. - SG 101/04) sale of sites or detached parts of sites of unfinished construction state property;
6. (suppl. - SG 25/2001; amend. - SG 47/02, in force from 12.06.2002, amend. - SG 101/04) acquiring of immovable properties from co-owners individuals or private corporate bodies on liquidation of the co-ownership between them and the state, state enterprises, sole owned joint-stock companies or limited liability companies with state property through a voluntary or court subdivision. In case of liquidation the ownership of a indivisible property the owners - individuals or private corporate bodies, shall have the right to acquire the ownership of all the indivisible property by paying the share of the state, respectively to the state enterprises or to sole owned joint-stock companies or limited liability companies with state participation, with compensatory bonds and residential compensatory bonds. In the same way, they have right to redeem also the sum for settlement of the shares at subdivision of divisible property.
(2) (Repealed - SG 28/02)
(3) (Amend. and suppl. - SG 99/2000; amend. - SG 47/02, in force from 12.06.2002) In the cases of a re-scheduled payment under Art. 31 or under Art. 25, para 3 as well as Art. 35 of the Act on transforming and privatisation of state and municipal enterprises the remainder of the purchase price under a concluded transaction by the date of effecting this amendment of the Act can be fully paid through compensation and residential compensatory bonds till December 31 2000.
(4) (Amend. - SG 25/2001) In the cases when the buyer under Art. 25, para 3, and Art. 31 and art. 35 of the Act on transforming and privatisation of state and municipal enterprises has delayed the payment, para 3 shall not be applied by the payment of the delayed liability.
(5) (New - SG 25/2001) At sale by the state of permanently mounted equipment and permanently fixed possessions in buildings restituted under the Restoring Ownership of Nationalised Real Estate Act, priority for buying out shall be given to the restituents or to their heirs of direct or lateral line up to third degree.
(6) (New - SG 25/2001; amend. - SG 47/02, in force from 12.06.2002) With compensatory bonds and residential compensatory bonds shall be paid also:
1. (revoked - SG 28/02)
2. all the due interests for the loans of the corporate bodies to the state under the Act on Settlement of Non-serviced Credits Contracted by December 31, 1990, upon choice of the debtor.
(7) (New - SG 25/2001, revoked - SG 28/02)

Art. 9. (New - SG 9/2000; amend. - SG 25/2001) (1) (Suppl. - SG 24/06) By May 31, 2000, the Ministers, the chiefs of departments and the regional governors shall establish and submit to the Minister of State Administration and Administrative Reform for announcement all state non-privatised and not included in the programs for objective-oriented privatisation unfinished construction sites, lodgings, shops, warehouses, work shops, offices, service stations and land plots within the boundaries of the regulation plans of the settlements and any other immovable properties - private state property, with pointing out the base price at which the tenders for their privatisation will be carried out.
(2) (Amend. - SG 99/2000, suppl. - SG 24/06) The Minister of State Administration and Administrative Reform shall submit for promulgation in State Gazette and announce in another appropriate way by June 30, 2001 the list of the sites under para 1. The tenders shall be declared by July 31, 2001 and shall be held by December 31, 2001 pursuant to the State Property Act under terms and by an order determined by the Council of Ministers.
(3) The demands for indemnification under Art. 5, para 3 on which there are pending cases under Art. 7 of the Restoring Ownership of Nationalised Real Estate Act shall be considered after effecting the decision.
(4) The persons under Para. 3, as well as the ones the claims of whom under Art. 7 of the Restoring Ownership of Nationalised Real Estate Act have been rejected by effected decisions after November 22, 1998 can set up claims for indemnification under Art. 6 within a two month term after the effecting the decision.
(5) Within a term of three months of effecting these amendments to the Act the persons whose lodgings have been restored to the former owners under Art. 7 of the Restoring Ownership of Nationalised Real Estate Act can set up claims for indemnification by residential compensatory bonds before the regional governor according to the location of the property.

Art. 10. (New - SG 9/2000; corr. - SG 10/2000) (1) (Amend. - SG 25/2001; amend. - SG 47/02, in force from 12.06.2002) The compensatory and residential compensatory bonds which have not been used by December 31, 2000 shall be registered by March 31, 2001 at the Central register of compensatory bonds at the Centre for mass privatisation under conditions and by an order determined by the Council of Ministers. The records and the certificates received after December 31, 2000 shall be registered within a term of two months after receiving them.
(2) (Amend. - SG 47/02, in force from 12.06.2002) Regardless of their registration, the compensatory bonds and the residential compensatory bonds shall continue to be a means of participation by their unpaid value in all kinds of privatisation transactions for state property, as well as further enjoy all rights and possibilities under Art. 4, para 2 and Art. 8.
(3) (New - SG 25/2001; amend. - SG 47/02, in force from 12.06.2002; amend. – SG 61/15) * By March 31, 2002, the Council of Ministers shall submit to the National Assembly a proposal for utilisation of the unused compensatory bonds, residential compensatory bonds, compensation vouchers under the Farm Land Ownership and Use Act and compensation vouchers under the Restoration of Ownership of Forests and Forestry Fund Lands Act, that have not been used by the initial possessors till December 31, 2001.

Transitional and concluding provisions

§ 1. In the Restoring Ownership of Nationalised Real Estate (prom. SG 15/92; suppl. SG 28/92; amend. SG 20, 40/95, SG 66/95 - Decision No 9 of the Constitutional Court of 1995; SG 94/95 - Decision No 20 of the Constitutional Court of 1995, amend. SG 51/96, SG 61/96 - Decision No 11 of the Constitutional Court of 1996; corr. SG 87/96 - Decision No 16 of the Constitutional Court of 1996) the following amendments shall be made:
1. Art. 2 shall be changed to:
a) (announced unconstitutional - SG 30/98) in para 1 at the end shall be added the text: "The State Insurance Institute Act (prom. SG 143/46; corr. SG146/46; amend. and suppl. SG 100/48; corr. SG 108/48; amend. and suppl. SG 223/48; corr. SG 257/48; amend. and suppl. SG194/50); the Banks Act (prom. SG 302/47; amend. SG 133/48, Izv. 51/51, 42/52); the Act on buying out large scale farm implements for the labour cooperative farms and machine-tractor stations (SG 22/47); the Act on buying out of large scale farm machinery (prom. SG 48/48; amend. and suppl SG 150/50); the Act on buying out commercial inventory (SG 294/48); the Law for nationalisation of load sailing vessels (SG 265/48); the Edict for mines and underground resources (prom. SG 135/48; amend. SG 238/49; suppl. Izv. 14/51; amend. 104/51) as well as the confiscated under the Ordinance-law for putting on trial by the People's court those guilty for involving Bulgaria in the World War against the United peoples and for the malefactions connected with it (prom. SG 219/44; amend. SG 261/44, SG 9/45) and under the Law for confiscation of properties acquired with speculation and in unlawful way (prom. SG 78/46; suppl. SG 191/46; amend. SG 226/46; corr. SG 235/46), under art. 56 of the Ordinance-law for supplies and prices (prom. SG 213/45; corr. SG228, 253, 260, 269/45; amend. SG 232/46; suppl. SG 199/50; amend. Izv. 13/51), under art. 17 of the Law for collecting taxes and other state receivables (prom. SG 304/48; suppl. Izv. 8/51) and under the Ordinance for collecting taxes and fees (prom. Izv. 13/52; amend. 74/60, renamed to Ordinance for collecting the state receivables - prom. SG 59/63; amend. SG 67/63, SG 96/64, SG 73/79; amend and suppl. SG 68/82, SG 77/83, SG 62/88) as well as under the edicts with which is taken property of the citizens in favour of the state;
b) (new - SG 45/88) created shall be para 1a:
"(1a) Each person who's possessions have been confiscated under the Law for confiscation of properties acquired with speculation and in unlawful way (prom. SG 78/46; suppl. SG 191/46; amend. SG 226/46; corr. SG 235/46) and under art. 56 of the Ordinance-law for supplies and prices (prom. SG 213/45; corr. SG228, 253, 260, 269/45; amend. SG 232/46; suppl. SG 199/50; amend. Izv. 13/51), as well as his legal successors shall have the right to make proposal for check of the convictions with which have been confiscated their possessions under chapter eighteen of the Penalty Procedure Code within the tem of art. 6, para 1."
c) (previous item b), amend. SG 45/98) new para 2 shall be created:
"(2) Restored shall be also the ownership of all movable and immovable properties taken without lawful grounds or alienated not according to the established legal order by the state, by the municipalities and by the people's councils during the period from September 9, 1944 till 1989.";
d) (previous item c) - SG 45/98) the previous para 2 shall become para 3.
2. Art. 3 shall be changed in the following way:
a) in para 1 at the end the full stop shall be deleted and shall be added the text "or other legal successors. The right of the persons to receive restoration of ownership shall be ascertained with the fact that it has been taken from them or from their rights' grantors. The claims of third persons for rights in the same properties shall not be an obstacle for restoration of the ownership of the persons from which the properties have been taken. The disputes between the claimants shall be settled by lawsuit order.";
b) in para 2 the first sentence shall be changed to:
"Restored shall be the ownership of all corporate bodies, churches, monasteries, mosques, synagogues and other religious communities, to culture clubs and schools which properties have been alienated in a way pointed out in art. 1 and 2, para 1 and 2."
3. The text of art. 5 shall become para 1 and para 2 shall be created:
"(2) The expired acquisition prescription term for properties the ownership in which is restored under this Act of under the Law for ownership and use of farm lands (prom. SG 17/91; corr. SG 20/91; amend. SG74/91, SG 18, 28, 46, 105/92, SG 48/93, SG 64/93 - Decision No 12 of the Constitutional Court of 1993; amend. SG 83/93, SG 80/94, SG 45, 57/95, SG 59/95 - Decisions No 7 and 8 of the Constitutional Court of 1995; amend. SG 79/96, SG 103/96 - Decision No 20 of the Constitutional Court of 1996; amend. SG 104/96, SG 62, 87, 98/97) or under the Law for amnesty and giving back of taken properties (prom. SG 1/91; corr. SG 21/91; amend. SG62/97) shall not be recognised and shall start to pass on the day of this provision enters into force."

§ 2. (1) (Partially announced unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court about the words "under art. 7 of the Restoring Ownership of Nationalised Real Estate" - SG 30/98); previous text of § 2 - SG 45/98) The preclusive terms under (announced unconstitutional - SG 30/98) art. 7 of the Restoring Ownership of Nationalised Real Estate, under art. 4 of the Restoring Ownership of Nationalised Real Estate alienated under the Territorial and Urban Development Act, the Law for planned construction of settlements, the Law for improvement of settlements, the Law for state properties and the Law for ownership (SG 15/92), under art. 8 of the Law for amnesty and giving back of taken properties (prom. SG 1/91; corr. SG 21/91; amend. SG 62/97) and under art. 18 and § 6 of the Law for transformation and privatisation of state and municipal enterprises (prom. SG 38/92; amend. and. suppl. SG 51/94, SG 45, 57, 109/95, SG 42, 45, 68, 85/96; corr. SG 86/96; amend. and suppl. SG 55, 61, 89, 98/97) shall be restored and shall start on the day this Act enters into force.
(2) (new - SG 45/98) The preclusive term of art. 7 of the Law for restoration of the ownership in nationalised immovable properties with regard to properties which ownership is restored on the ground of the amendment of art. 2 of the same law, made with § 1 of the transitional and concluding provisions of the Law for indemnification of the owners of nationalised properties, shall start on November 21, 1997.

§ 3. In art. 1, para 1 of the Law for restoration of ownership in some immovable properties alienated under the Law for territorial and urban development, the Law for planned construction of settlements, the Law for improvement of settlements, the Law for state properties and the Law for ownership (SG 15/92) after the words "under the Law for improvement of settlements" shall be added the text: "under the Edict for amendment of the Law for implementation of the general urban development plan of Great capital municipality (Great Sofia) (SG 114/48); under the Edict for amendment of the Law for implementation of the general urban development plan of Great capital municipality (Great Sofia) (SG 134/48), under art. 5, para 3 of Edict No 115 for encouragement and support of cooperative and individual residential building (prom. Izv. 28/54; amend. and suppl. 55/54, 31,46, 71/57, 66/59, 51, 81/60, 93/61; SG 25/63, SG 23/67, SG 26/73), under the Law for residential construction and management of residential buildings (prom. SG 64/49; amend. SG 227/49, SG 52/50) and under the Law for approval and implementation of the general urban development plan of Sofia (prom. SG 89/61; amend. SG 29/73) ".

§ 4. The Minister of Justice and the Minister of Finance shall approve and promulgate in State Gazette in two months term after this Act enters into force a list of individuals and corporate bodies to whom is given a permission to make expert statements under this Act.

§ 5. (suppl. - SG 24/06l amend. – SG 77/10) The implementation of this Act shall be assigned to the corresponding Ministers, chiefs of administrative bodies, regional governors as well as to the executive director of the Privatisation Agency and to the Minister of Finance.
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The law is passed by the 38-th National Assembly on November 7, 1997 and is affixed with the state seal.

Transitional and concluding provisions
Of the Law for amendment and supplement of the Law for indemnification of the owners of nationalised properties (prom. SG 88/98)
§ 3.(1) The Minister of State Administration and the Minister of Finance shall determine in fourteen days term after this Act enters into force the conditions, the order and the tariff for payment to the experts of the list under § 4.
(2) Within the term pointed out in para 1 the Minister of State Administration and the Minister of Finance shall approve a model of temporary certificate for compensatory bonds.

§ 3a. For proceedings pending according to this Act the actual market price under art. 4, para 3, item 3 shall be determined according to the revoked Appendix No 1 to the Local Taxes and Fees Act, considering from January 1, 2002.

§ 4. The Act shall enter into force on the day of its promulgation in State Gazette.

Transitional and concluding provisions
TO THE CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE
(PROM. – SG 59/07, IN FORCE FROM 01.03.2008) 
§ 61. This code shall enter into force from 1 March 2008, except for:
1. Part Seven "Special rules related to proceedings on civil cases subject to application of European Union legislation";
2. paragraph 2, par. 4;
3. paragraph 3 related to revoking of Chapter Thirty Two "a" "Special rules for recognition and admission of fulfillment of decisions of foreign courts and of other foreign bodies" with Art. 307a – 307e and Part Seven "Proceedings for returning a child or exercising the right of personal relations" with Art. 502 – 507;
4. paragraph 4, par. 2;
5. paragraph 24;
6. paragraph 60,
which shall enter into force three days after the promulgation of the Code in the State Gazette.

Transitional and concluding provisions
TO THE ACT AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE CODE
(PROM. - SG 77/18, IN FORCE FROM 01.01.2019)
§ 156. The Act shall enter into force on 1 January 2019, with the exception of:
1. paragraphs 4, 11, 14, 16, 20, 30, 31, 74 and § 105 item 1 on the first sentence, and item 2 which shall enter into force on 10 October 2019;
2. paragraphs 38 and 77, which shall enter into force two months after the promulgation of this Act in the State Gazette;
3. paragraph 79, items 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7, § 150 and 153, which shall enter into force on the day of the promulgation of this Act in the State Gazette.

Editor`s note
* Editor`s note: The amendment to this issue of the State Gazette refers to replacing a word with its synonym, which is practically untranslatable in English.